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Description

The Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Vegetation Indices (MOD13Q1) Version 6.1 data are generated every 16 days at 250 meter (m) spatial resolution as a Level 3 product. The MOD13Q1 product provides two primary vegetation layers. The first is the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) which is referred to as the continuity index to the existing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (NOAA-AVHRR) derived NDVI. The second vegetation layer is the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), which has improved sensitivity over high biomass regions. The algorithm chooses the best available pixel value from all the acquisitions from the 16 day period. The criteria used is low clouds, low view angle, and the highest NDVI/EVI value.

Along with the vegetation layers and the two quality layers, the HDF file will have MODIS reflectance bands 1 (red), 2 (near-infrared), 3 (blue), and 7 (mid-infrared), as well as four observation layers.

Known Issues

Version Description

The following changes and improvements were implemented for inputs to MODIS Version 6.1 vegetation indices data products: (1) Version 6.1 Level-1B (L1B) products have been improved by undergoing various calibration changes that include: changes to the response-versus-scan angle (RVS) approach that affects reflectance bands for Aqua and Terra MODIS, corrections to adjust for the optical crosstalk in Terra MODIS infrared (IR) bands, and corrections to the Terra MODIS forward look-up table (LUT) update for the period 2012 – 2017, and (2) A polarization correction has been applied to the L1B Reflective Solar Bands (RSB).

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Projects
TERRA
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
250 Meters x 250 Meters
Spatial Reference System(s)
MODIS Sinusoidal Tiling System
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-18 to Present
Temporal Resolution
16 Day
Data Partner
Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC) ,
MODIS Adaptive Processing System, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/MODAPS)
Concept ID
C1748066515-LPCLOUD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
177482
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Vegetation Index ,
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) ,
Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Didan, K. (2021). MODIS/Terra Vegetation Indices 16-Day L3 Global 250m SIN Grid V061 [Dataset]. NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD13Q1.061 Date Accessed: 2026-08-24

File Naming Convention

MOD13Q1.A2025193.h31v08.061.2025209132825.hdf

The file name begins with the Product Short Name (MOD13Q1) followed by the Julian Date of Acquisition formatted as AYYYYDDD (A2025193), the Tile Identifier which is horizontal tile and vertical tile provided as hXXvYY (h31v08), the Version of the data collection (061), the Julian Date and Time of Production designated as YYYYDDDHHMMSS (2025209132825), and the Data Format (hdf).

Documents

USER'S GUIDE

ALGORITHM THEORETICAL BASIS DOCUMENT (ATBD)

PRODUCT QUALITY ASSESSMENT

SCIENCE DATA PRODUCT VALIDATION

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION

Publications Citing This Dataset

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Long-term investigation of methane and carbon dioxide emissions in two Italian landfills Brilli, L., Toscano, P., Carotenuto, F., Di Lonardo, S., Di Tommasi, P., Magliulo, V., Manco, A., Vitale, L., Zaldei, A., Gioli, B. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Long-Term Landslide Evolution and Restoration After the Wenchuan Wang, Xin, Fan, Xuanmei, Fang, Chengyong, Dai, Lanxin, Zhang, Wei, Zheng, Hongrui, Xu, Qiang Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Evapotranspiration, Latent Heat Flux, Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Leopard density and determinants of space use in a farming landscape in South Africa J.E.T., McKaughan, P.A., Stephens, C., Lucas, N., Guichard-Kruger, F., Guichard-Kruger, R.A., Hill Population Density, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Loss and recovery of vegetation productivity in response to extreme Li, Meng, Cui, Rui, Bu, Lingjia, Yang, Yuting Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Linking Vegetation Characteristics of Madagascar's Spiny Forest to Habitat Occupancy of Lepilemur petteri Ratovonamana, Yedidya R., Apel, Celina, Hajanantenaina, Davidson H., Foley, William J., Kubler, Daniel, Nevermann, Stella, Rakotondranary, S. Jacques, Stalenberg, Eleanor M., Ganzhorn, Jorg U. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Mapping desertification susceptibility in the Hodna watershed Algeria, using a remote sensing-based logistic regression approach Kharchi, Takki Eddine, Chadi, Mohammed, Benabbas, Chaouki, Grecu, Florina, Yekhlefoune, Manel Infrastructure, Food Security, Conservation, Environmental Health Factors, Urbanization/Urban Sprawl, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux
Mapping of high-resolution daily particulate matter (PM2.5) concentration at the city level through a machine learning-based downscaling approach Nguyen, Phuong D. M., Phan, An H., Ngo, Truong X., Ho, Bang Q., Pham, Tran Vu, Nguyen, Thanh T. N. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Leveraging unsupervised machine learning to examine Women's vulnerability to climate change Caruso, German, Mueller, Valerie, Villacis, Alexis Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Monitoring soil erosion in support of achieving SDGs: A special focus on rainfall variation and farming systems vulnerability Senanayake, Sumudu, Pradhan, Biswajeet, Wedathanthirige, Haritha, Alamri, Abdullah, Park, Hyuck-Jin Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Multi-Index Approach to Assess and Monitor Meteorological and Agricultural Drought in the Mediterranean Region: Case of the Upper Oum Er Rabia Watershed, Morocco Mliyeh, Mohammed Mouad, Ait Brahim, Yassine, Koutsovili, Eleni-Ioanna, Tzoraki, Ourania, Zian, Ahmed, Aqnouy, Mourad, Benaabidate, Lahcen Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux
Multi-scale correlation reveals the evolution of socio-natural contributions to tropospheric HCHO over China from 2005 to 2022 Xia, Hui, Wang, Dakang, Abad, Gonzalo Gonzalez, Yang, Xiankun, Zhu, Lei, Pu, Dongchuan, Feng, Xu, Zhang, Aoxing, Song, Zhaolong, Mo, Yongru, Wang, Jinnian Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Phenotypic divergence of <i>Glossina morsitans</i> (Diptera: Muyobela, Jackson, Pirk, Christian W. W., Yusuf, Abdullahi A., Sole, Catherine L. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Canopy Characteristics, Evergreen Vegetation, Crown, Deciduous Vegetation, Leaf Characteristics, Vegetation Cover, Land Use/Land Cover Classification
Paleohydrology repeating? Regional hydrological change may lead to an overflow and cross-mixing of an alkaline and a freshwater lake in East Africa Herrnegger, Mathew, Kray, Pierre, Stecher, Gabriel, Cherono Kiplangat, Nelly, Otieno, Dennis, Olang, Luke, Nicholson, Sharon E. Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Outdoor artificial light-at-night and cardiometabolic disease risk: an urban perspective from the Catalan GCAT cohort study Palomar-Cros, Anna, Espinosa, Ana, Bara, Salva, Sanchez, Alejandro, Valentin, Antonia, Cirach, Marta, Castano-Vinyals, Gemma, Papantoniou, Kyriaki, Blay, Natalia, de Cid, Rafael, Romaguera, Dora, Kogevinas, Manolis, Harding, Barbara N Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Overcoming data gaps using integrated models to estimate migratory Farr, Matthew T., Zylstra, Erin R., Ries, Leslie, Zipkin, Elise F. Population Density, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Perspectives on modifiable spatiotemporal unit problems in remote sensing of agriculture: evaluating rice production in Vietnam and tools for analysis Peter, Brad G., Messina, Joseph P., Breeze, Victoria, Fung, Cadi Y., Kapoor, Abhinav, Fan, Peilei Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Quantifying the Cooling Effect of Urban Greening Driven by Ecological Restoration Projects in China Xu, Dong, Bai, Tingting, Yang, Lin, Zhou, Yuyu, Chen, Bin, Xu, Haifeng, Song, Yongze, Yuan, Yuan, Cui, Yuanzheng, Meng, Lin, Xia, Ziqian, Chen, Min, Xu, Zhenci, Zhao, Peng, Dong, Guihua, Zhang, Lei, Zhao, Jiacheng, Wu, Wanben, Wang, Wei, Zhao, Liu, Cheng, Jie, Ciais, Philippe Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Reflectance, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity
Quantifying the relative importance of influencing factors on NPP in Hengduan Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau from 2002 to 2021: A Dominance Analysis Long, Boyin, Zeng, Changli, Zhou, Tao, Yang, Zhihan, Rao, Fuping, Li, Jingji, Chen, Guo, Tang, Xiaolu Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Biomass Dynamics, Biomass
Numerical Weather Forecast and Multi-Meteorological Data Fusion Based on Artificial Intelligence Yang, Yuanjian, Wang, Shuai, Zheng, Wenjian, Zhou, Shaohui, Duan, Zexia, Wang, Mengya Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity
Protected areas, drought, and grazing regimes influence fire occurrence in a fire-prone Mediterranean region Kirkland, Maire, Atkinson, Philip W., Aliacar, Sara, Saavedra, Deli, De Jong, Mark C., Dowling, Thomas P. F., Ashton-Butt, Adham Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Population Density
Pursuit and escape drive fine-scale movement variation during migration in a temperate alpine ungulate John, Christian, Avgar, Tal, Rittger, Karl, Smith, Justine A., Stephenson, Logan W., Stephenson, Thomas R., Post, Eric Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Predicting malaria risk considering vector control interventions under Sadoine, Margaux L., Zinszer, Kate, Liu, Ying, Gachon, Philippe, Fournier, Michel, Dueymes, Guillaume, Dorsey, Grant, Llerena, Ana, Namuganga, Jane Frances, Nasri, Bouchra, Smargiassi, Audrey Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Land use drives differential resource selection by African elephants in Wall, Jake, Hahn, Nathan, Carroll, Sarah, Mwiu, Stephen, Goss, Marc, Sairowua, Wilson, Tiedeman, Kate, Kiambi, Sospeter, Omondi, Patrick, Douglas-Hamilton, Iain, Wittemyer, George Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Landscape metrics as predictors of water-related ecosystem services: Insights from hydrological modeling and data-based approaches applied on the Arno River Basin, Italy el Jeitany, Jerome, Nussbaum, Madlene, Pacetti, Tommaso, Schroder, Boris, Caporali, Enrica Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Intra-annual vegetation changes and spatial variation in China over the past two decades based on remote sensing and time-series clustering Cheng, Xi, Luo, Mingliang, Chen, Ke, Sun, Jian, Wu, Yong Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
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